The Ministry of Education has credited measures from its five-year Education Strategic Plan for notable increases in the number of passes in English and Mathematics and an overall pass rate of 66% in the 2010 CSEC examinations.
According to a press release from the Education Ministry, Minister of Education Shaik Baksh told a recent forum that for English the pass rate—grades one to three—jumped from 50% in 2009 to 59% last year. The figure, the Ministry noted, was way